Tropical Storm Erika affected Puerto Rico on August 27th 2015. Several winds damages associated with Tropical Storm force winds were reported.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS SJU wrote it up.
Tropical Storm Erika affected Puerto Rico on August 27th 2015. Several winds damages associated with Tropical Storm force winds were reported. Several trees were downed as well as power lines. 250,000 people were without power. Agriculture sector damages were estimated around 17.37 million dollars. Dozens of electrical power poles were reported damages.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS San Juan, PR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 27, 4:18 PM AST, 5 hours 42 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 547 AM AST THU AUG 27 2015 AMZ710>745-PRZ001>013-281100- SAN JUAN AND VICINITY-NORTHEAST-SOUTHEAST-EASTERN INTERIOR- NORTH CENTRAL-CENTRAL INTERIOR-PONCE AND VICINITY-NORTHWEST- WESTERN INTERIOR-MAYAGUEZ AND VICINITY-SOUTHWEST-CULEBRA-VIEQUES- THE NEARSHORE AND OFF SHORE ATLANTIC AND CARIBBEAN COASTAL WATERS- 547 AM AST THU AUG 27 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PUERTO RICO AND THE ADJACENT ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL STORM ERIKA ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT PUERTO RICO TODAY...BECOMING MORE NUMEROUS WITH STRONGER WINDS AND GUSTS AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. SQUALLY WEATHER IS POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND IN THE EVENING HOURS. MINOR FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE SHOWERS AND SOME WIND DAMAGE FROM THE WIND GUSTS IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THE MORE SIGNIFICANT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT PUERTO RICO AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. THERE IS ALSO A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY MOST OF THE SIGNIFICANT SHOWERS ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL STORM ERIKA ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT PUERTO RICO OVERNIGHT FROM THURSDAY TO FRIDAY...PARTICULARLY RIGHT AFTER MIDNIGHT INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF FRIDAY. THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER FORECASTS 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN WITH MAX TOTALS OF 8 INCHES. THIS AMOUNT OF RAINFALL CAN PRODUCE FLOODING IN URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS...IN ADDITION IT COULD POTENTIALLY CAUSE SOME FLASH FLOODING. IN TERMS OF WINDS...ERIKA HAS MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS OF 50 MPH WHICH COULD CAUSE SOME WIND DAMAGE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING...AMOUNTS OF RAIN OR WIND DAMAGE WILL BE APPRECIATED. AMZ715-725-VIZ001-002-281100- ST. THOMAS ST. JOHN ADJACENT ISLANDS-ST CROIX- NEARSHORE ATLANTIC AND ADJACENT CARIBBEAN COASTAL WATERS- 547 AM AST THU AUG 27 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL STORM ERIKA ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE USVI TODAY...BECOMING MORE NUMEROUS WITH STRONGER WINDS AND GUSTS AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. SQUALLY WEATHER IS POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND IN THE EVENING HOURS. MINOR FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE SHOWERS AND SOME WIND DAMAGE FROM THE WIND GUSTS IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THE MORE SIGNIFICANT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE ISLANDS JUST BEFORE AND AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. THERE IS ALSO A MODERATE TO HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY MOST OF THE SIGNIFICANT SHOWERS ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL STORM ERIKA ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE USVI OVERNIGHT FROM THURSDAY TO FRIDAY...FROM JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT TO JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF FRIDAY. THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER FORECASTS 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN WITH MAX TOTALS OF 8 INCHES. THIS AMOUNT OF RAINFALL CAN PRODUCE FLOODING IN URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS AND GUTS...IN ADDITION IT COULD POTENTIALLY CAUSE SOME FLASH FLOODING. IN TERMS OF WINDS...ERIKA HAS MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS OF 50 MPH WHICH COULD CAUSE SOME WIND DAMAGE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING...AMOUNTS OF RAIN OR WIND DAMAGE WILL BE APPRECIATED.
4 tropical storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees were reported downed at PR-155 and PR-778 in Comer o, at Barrio Rabanal in Almirante sector in Cidra; and trees and power lines downed in Fabian Morales sector in Aguas Buenas.
PREMA reported 36 houses with roof damages across the western interior and southern slopes municipalities. Tress downed were reported at PR-123 and PR-135 in Adjuntas and at PR-605 in Utuado. Also, power lines downed in Utuado.
Trees downed at route 66, km 9.9 in Canovanas.
A Zinc roof was blown away at Barrio Bartolo in Palma Sola Sector in Lares.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Puerto Rico in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Puerto Rico, August 2015The 2015 hurricane season
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 599788, 599789, 600779, 600782.